FIGURES showed the number of passengers were up 11.4% on last year with the airport seeing the biggest rise in international travellers since January 2008.

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Figures have increased

THE number of people passing through Edinburgh Airport increased last month, with a "massive" jump in the number of international passengers.

Latest figures showed 700,142 people used the airport in January, up 11.4 per cent on the same month last year.

The 342,540 international passengers recorded was a 21.7 per cent annual increase - the greatest monthly rise since January 2008.

Gordon Dewar, the airport's chief executive, said: "January's passenger numbers are very welcome indeed and the massive increase in the number of international passengers highlights the growing draw of Edinburgh as a prime global destination.

"We are continuing to offer greater choice with more routes and more destinations - and passengers are responding by flying in and out of Edinburgh directly in greater numbers than ever before."